Indexes Losing Gender of Individuals After Editing
I've noticed an issue in recent days, that sometimes while I am making corrections/edits to indexes for documents I'm working to attach, the gender of all individuals on that record will suddenly disappear. There will be no history of the change, so looking at the change history it will look like there should be a gender, but none will exist until I manually add them back in for each individual. It seems to be happening about 10% of the time now when I edit a record. Here's an example of one such record where I lost gender data while working with it, and manually went in to add the gender back in to each individual:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-897S-SGRP?view=index&lang=en&groupId=
Has anyone run into this and is there anything in particular I can do or avoid doing in order to decrease or eliminate the chance of it happening when I am editing an indexed record?
Thanks!
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@marcoreid1 I will look into this and get back to you.
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@marcoreid1 I haven't been able to replicate this error so I would just ask you to let me know if the data loss continues. In looking at other marriage records for Cremona I notice a lot that are missing gender, but—as you mentioned, nothing comes up in the change log.
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@SerraNola
Thanks for helping me out by digging into this issue.
As I have worked through some records in recent days, I've not run across this very much at all, much less frequently than prior to my first post. However, here's one that occurred just now as I was working in a volume:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G97S-SLHD?view=index&cc=1987747&lang=en&groupId=
What's more, I looked around at all the other records in this small volume, and it appears that ALL the indexes that had not previously been linked to a person also lost their gender at the same time. The linked (at the time of the change) seem to all have retained their gender. No idea why that is, but it may prove useful in diagnosing this issue.
I'm going to start adding genders back in as I work through this record.
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Wanted to update that this issue is still occurring and removing the gender information from many indexed records. I suspect some bad code is creating problems when editing indexes, removing gender from all non-linked indexes in the image group, and that a fix will need to be run at some point to re-add genders to all the records which do not currently have them, had them in the past, but do not have a an entry showing them removed.
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@marcoreid1 I can see that many indexes in these records have blank gender fields, but I am still unclear about the link to user editing or if there is another cause. I do notice that often the relationship of "mother" or "father" does not display even though there is a gender assigned. It is on the list for further investigation. Please do send URL's when this occurs.
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